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The peninsula is approximately 30 km long and 12 km wide, subdividing the Peter the Great Gulf into Amur Bay on its west and Ussuri Bay on its east. The Eastern Bosphorus separates the peninsula from Russky Island , the northernmost island of the Eugénie Archipelago immediately south of the peninsula.
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The Peter the Great Gulf: Amur Bay (west), Muravyov-Amursky Peninsula and Ussuri Bay (east).. Amur Bay (Russian: Амурский Залив, Amurskiy Zaliv), a major bay within Peter the Great Gulf of the Sea of Japan, has an approximate length of 65 kilometres (40 miles), a width of 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) to 20 kilometres (12 miles), and a depth of 20 metres (66 feet). [1]
The Amur River (Russian: река Амур) or Heilong River (Chinese: 黑龙江) [8] is a perennial river in Northeast Asia, forming the natural border between the Russian Far East and Northeast China (historically the Outer and Inner Manchuria). The Amur proper is 2,824 km (1,755 mi) long, and has a drainage basin of 1,855,000 km 2 (716,000 ...
Heixiazi / Bolshoy Ussuriysky Island is depicted in the inset map on the lower right. Bolshoi Ussuriysky Island (Russian: Большо́й Уссури́йский о́стров, romanized: Bol'shoy Ussuriyskiy Ostrov), or Heixiazi Island (simplified Chinese: 黑瞎子岛; traditional Chinese: 黑瞎子島; pinyin: Hēixiāzi Dǎo; lit. 'black bear island' [a]), is a sedimentary island at the ...
5.1 Location map templates. 5.2 Creating new map definitions. Toggle the table of contents. Module: Location map/data/Russia Amur Oblast. 12 languages. Afrikaans;
Long Island was once a peninsula connected to North America during the great Ice Ages, and includes two large peninsulas at its east end: the South Fork and the North Fork. Cumberland Head; Coney Island was an island until it was expanded through land reclamation into the Coney Island Creek, thus becoming a peninsula.
[12]: 338–339 In 1856, Russian military entered the area north of the Amur on pretext of defending the area from France and the UK, [12]: 341 Russian settlers founded new towns and cut down forests in the region, [12]: 341 and the Russian government created a new maritime province, Primorskaya Oblast, including Sakhalin, the mouth of the Amur ...